The Sun. — London, England, 1809-01-14 00:00:00

POETRY. ~, THE - DAWN. B rs 3 OW al SO a: • ••••••••• ' There is a soft and fragrant hour, Sweet, fresh, roviving is its power ; 'Tis when a ray • Steals from the veil of parting night, _ t And by its mild prelusive light , •• Fortells . tho Day. ' 'T is when some ling'ring.stars scarce shed O'er the mist.clad mountain's head Their fairy beam ; Then one .5 , cute retiring, shroud, thin glitteriug.thro' a fleecy cloud, • Their last faint gleam. , • Ll., "Tis when (just wak'd from transient death By some fresh zephyrs balmy breath) Th' unfolding ro'so Sheds on the air its rich perfume, While every bud with deeper blown . • , , . And beauty glows. • 'Tis when the Stet-girt turret's brow Receives thetait'slitst kindling glow, - And the dark wave, Swelling to meet the orient gleam, Refleits the warmly strengtlrning beam It seems to lave. 'Tis when the restless child of sorrow, Watching the wisted-for rising mortoiv. His conch foregoes, And seeks midst scenes so 's%•vett, so 6i Id, # To sooth thos e p angs so keen, so wild, Of hopeless woes. daY, nor night - , this hour can chi*, . Nor moon:1W ray, nor taon-ride beam, Does it betray ; ' But 'fresh, 're'viving, dewy. sx‘ i ver, It hates the iluWing hours to *fleet Of rising day.' - ••••••••••••• 01•00.••••••••••••••••• DC? 114 EDITOR OF TUE SUY. ‘llDITott, in yoii'r veinal ks open the recent performance of Macbeth, at the Hayiyatket Theatre, though you justly paid homage to the merit of Mrs. SIDISIONS, you furgdt to notice ore ,circurnstance that shevol ow ready she is to submit to the advice of judicious criticism. Some objedions were raised against' her . Mode of pronouncing 'her answer to Macbeth,. when speaking of the plopoSed murder of Duncan, he says-'-m If we Mould fail!" In repeating the words " We fail,- M rs . sippois had been accustomed to say, " we fail," in au easy familiar manner, as\if no dreadful consequence_ would, result to Nadal; tand .his wife from the failure, a manner that ope rating on his hesitating mind, would have induced bun at once to uOaudon so perilous an eriterprize. Litt on Wednesday last, she uttered those words With dejected asped, as if the miscarriag e w ou ld indeed be. a terrible event for botb.. This change erfainly manifests a laudable attention to liberal ad vice y but , atilt it may. be qeestioned whether Mrs.. B tnpows has adopted the right Mode, and whether shv ought nut to say ) . " with a kind of triumphisitt presage, that they must. succeed if he acted with proper spirit. Or perhaps with,a partial= lar eMpitasis on the word, ,, we," as Duncan-was in their house, and yo completely in their power, that none " dare question," as she says, 'whatever re presentation they might think proper to.give of the horrible transattion.. if you insert this,. I maybe induced to trouble you with somwhing more on the admirable tragedy in question, and its late represen tation. • Cit tTo. DUI3L.III , TiIEATRE, JAN. 10. Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of 'licit toNr) honoured the Theatre with their presence, on Saturday evening. At an early hour, the Howe overflowed .in every 'part ; ratd we are pretty cer tain net half the number of perAons who presented themselVes at the doors cotild obtain admissions-, 11111 M-deb aloof Aolliing, and Mather Goose ] were the command.—Mr. HuL , M4l's lienedia nwell Served the repeated applause bestowed by the au' dience. it is one,of those difficult, but entertaining characters, few are equal to, and in which none have tt:en moresuccessful than Mr. FJOIAIAN. ' • Beatrice, by Mks SNIITEI, cannot he Npoketi of' in ether than terms of high pNise, She was spirited, tared, and fascinating, and was, of course, gene , . rally and frequently applauded; M ss Loctut imparted to Hero all the interest of which the character is capable • she spoke with Propri et y, and the elegance capable; her figure, and beauty of h er f ace, added every necessary arae-lion. Mullter Goose went oir with great success -13a An nutty introduced some new tricks, and very proper ly omitted others. ELLER appeared with increased adVantage, and Mies Glitonx displayed her usual grace, and was much applauded. • T - . rut THEATRE --The pathetic Tragedy of The Gai nestert which has a stronger recommendation of moral utility than most of our aolim- play , :, was re, presented last ni g h t at the Haymarket Theatre.; be. Yore a very numerous audience.: Airs. Sinnetes,has long been celebrated for her personation oVi2lirs. Beverley, and we never saw her sustain the clit;roc. ter with greater skill or more powerful.effea, ','tie' whole was indeed so chaste, so animated, and so ,atetling, that i t may b e considered as one of the most perle6t achievements of the nrt, 17but4ro for the first time made his appearance in the character °f Eeverie,x, and supported:it in. a manner, worthy of being classed with the efforts of 'the great with Whom he appeared. His performance was uniformly . marked by good sense, strong feeling, and capresinve energy. Coox E was somewhat hoarse, yet he suppor ed the charaCter of Stokely with his usual etteet.‘Consi. dering tile extent cif the dark:ter, there is tio,heiter performance on the stage than CPARLES keSmi.a's L ewson,- which was highly spirited and 'interesting. Excepting in the st.gge-box on the right side, which seems to bethe favourite haunt of gessippirrs tuf Gies 81 1 g . pupples, the audience in general were deeply interested in . the performance, and libcial applause. LONDOLV DOCK CO IP;INE Yesterday a Half-Yearly General,Meeting, of this Company was held at the City of London Tavern, BiShopsgate-street ; BEESTUN LoNq, Esq. in the Chair. After the Minutes of the'last Meeting had. heen 'continued, the Chairman moved, tit* a dividend (tt 3 04 pounds fif!een shillings percent. for the la.t •half year be declared, and exprgisecl 114 hope, that when the Company considered , 'lbw great an increase of their capital had. been, found, necessary beyond What was originally expeaed, how much the price of labour, as well as of every •atticle consumed M the Docks, had advanced; and how fully one of the great purposes of the Institution, that of giving, se 'corky and facility to the,transaaious of the mercan iii*body, had been fulfilled, they would not (eel disappointed, that a greater dividend was not recom mended than that which had been declared on former 'occasions. . A PROPRIETOR begged leave to inquire, what was the amount of the receipts of the Company, arising from permanent or ordinary sources, during the last - half year ? and what Were their eipences, during that period; 'arising also from permanent or ordinary capses? This inquiry produced some conversation. The CliAlititAN was not aware'that he could with pro priety answer the question. In most Public Bodies such a communication As that new required was not_ made ; in the Bank of England, for instance, where he had the honour to preside, it was not. - When the Company eleded their Court' of Directors, they invested them with their confidente, and if they titre thought unworthy of this, the remedy would be its vieding others. If the Company should . choose by a vote to call for such accounts, they would of course be produced ; ,but he thought there would be inconvenience and impropriety in the disclosure. Mr. GoLosstin, a candidate, as was said, for the Diredion, was of opinion, that the accounts called for were unnecessary, and hoped the Meeting would not be prolonged by unnecessary questions.— Mr.Devrms'es declared his readiness to produce the accounts, it . called for; but was also of opinion, that the communication would be attended with incon venience and impropriety. This was the sdhstance of what was said in reply to the Enquiry.' On the other hand, it was urged, in several replies, by the Proprietor', who made it, than his object might be granted without inconve nience, since he did not ask for accounts of hems,. but merely for a general statement in t wo s um s of the receipts and expenditure,, during the half year; that this statement might be reqnired, without im propriety, since the Proprietors were not to be con sidered as mortgagees, or annuitants, entitled only to a certain interest for their money, but were eel- low Proprietors with the Diredors, and were tied to, know the exalt state of the Company's afrairsi that there was, on the contrary, an obvious pro priety in their having this knowledge. since it might govern their conduct, with respeet to their stock; and that the enquiry, for it did not imply; nor was it intended, in the slightest. degree, to imply, any impeachment of the prudence, or the respectability of the Directors, One part of the Honourable Chairman's speech he was particularly &strums to notice, that which seeenied intended to establish a similarity between the Bank of England and the London Dock Company, as tntbepoliepef making disclosures of receipts and expenditures. Against tills he pruteste4, because the circumstance_; of the two 'Companies_ were: in so many respetts The London Dock Company had no attention to pay to public opinion, as far as that merely respected their finances. If their profits were ever so envie. ble, no other persons could interfere with theta; if they were evt:r so small, the Public might know, this, without inconvenience to the Cempaey, for they required no credit: The question for the declaration of a dividend of -tWo pounds fifteen shillings per cent. was then put and carried ; litter which the Meeting, on the 'mu . - tion of the CUATIOIAN, wai-adjonrued. LINCOLN, JAN. i2.—Much „inconvenience is ex' perieneed)vithin iht. precinas et . this ,city by the late rapid thaw after so large alall of snow, The banks of the Witham have been in some places burst by the weight, of waters, tint] all the eireum jacent low lands ate . inundated. Yesterday evening patt of of the oldgewt bridges in the. City gave way, and'a fire was in , censequence lighted ou,what remained of the bridge, and men were employed to watch all night; to prevent accidents. , • On Friday last upwards of 1!000 poor people (members of about 180 families) were relieved at Louth, by the distribution of a very large quantity of prime beef, potatoes, and strong beer, the gener ous present of Join; SLMPSON, 4,g. a West India Merchant residing at that place, lately : M. P. for the Borough of St. Michael's, in Cornwall.--The above was the second distribution this winter from , the board of. Mr. Sti‘tisoN, for the relief of-thegrateful poor of Louth. 'Tie-circumstances attending the trails - Miss* Of the 17th, teth, and • teth Bulletins, to this' countyy, are sorneWhat curious, .and, nut being generally known, may be interesting to our Readers.. A -fish ing smack from Dover, encountering a severe gale otf Dungeness, the Master (whose name is Drstr sev) took to the boat, and was shortly after picked up by a West Indianian. Two days, afterwards a ;countryman . passing on the shore opposite to Breck man's Barn, at Ilvthe, saw a boat without any per sonmu board. fin examination he diSeoyered, ly j in her bottom a parcel of papent, which he took to Mr. SittPLIEN, of Edythe, who, finding ;them to be Moniteuts, with the 17th, 18th, and loth Bul letins, forwarded the Papers to London. The boat - proved to be that belonging to Mr. DiMPSEY, which had biteb turned adrift when he was taken On board the West Indianian. Some days after the finding of• t h ese p a p ers , a cask with a flag fixed (tilt, was seen floating off Sandgate, and being picked ;up was ear-' rind to Ramsgate. On being opeeed; it was found to contain more French Papers, which,*ere also for t • warded to London. To whom these Papers Were t ransm itted we know not ; but at Ratnsgate no doubt is entertained, that the cask contained papers of a subsequent data to those which have been made ;puplic, 0 • ' 1 - • 'POLICE. , STREET. Yesterday a youilg man, of the name of George Tiiuder, was Oarged by Mr. Cowan, a silversmuh and jeweller, Nu. 3, Sydney's-alley, Leicester-Square, with robeing.him, whilein his employ as a shopman, of goods to a ennsiderahle amount. Mr.- Cowan stated, that about feet- mqnthi back he Cook the Priioner into his service as a shop - tam ; 1 he had received an excell*, character of him and his pareetsi• his father batik, a ticket-pOrter •to. Lin coln's-Inn, and his mother a sextoness to a religious society, •in which situations they were nidelt respect ed. Yesterday se'nnight, at two o'clock, the watch- house-keeper of his (Mr. Cowan's) parish, called at his shop, and told him that a watchman had in his custody a parcel of goods, which he received froth the. Prisoner, through the area gratings, at four o'clock that morning. The Prosecutor accordingly went with the watch-house-keeper .to the watch house, and ascertained that the parcel contained shop goods of his property ; the watchman was•taken into custody. On Mr. Cowan's returning home, he found the Prisoner had absconded without his hat ; .he went to that Office and obtained a search-war rant, to search the Prisoner's father's house, No. 6i, Cletnent's•lane; he took Hamilton; the Police Of ficer, with him. tits their entering the house, they informed Mrs., Trinder of their business ; she seem ed much arretted, and readily allowed them to search wit roomi, which, she said, were the only ones her family occupied.—They did' not find any of the sto'- len property ; the : Prisoner's fether.came in as they had finished the search: be seemed much atieeled, begged Mr. Cowan would have mercy on the boy, and reminded hint he was a father himself. Mr. Cowan ftated, that his feelings were so much elfet ed by their apparent distress, that he told them if they would bringlorward the , Prisoner, and be the means of his property being restored to him, he would not criminally prosecute the Prisoner ; at the same :bate, he thought he would be doing an act., of iniestiee to the public, if he had not him seht from a Polit.Odice on board the Tender, to erve in • his Majesty's Navy. They promised that duly would do every thing in their power.to have t 4 goods re. stored. " On the next (lay, Saturday, three .Gentle- men of the first reepeclability called on him, antic friends nfthe Prisoner's pnieots, gu'e them the best of characters for honesty and propriety of teinditet and represented that it, would cause their ruin it the Prisoner .was prosecatea. Mr. Cowan gave them the same assurance he had given the parents, on eon altioe that his. property was restored. ' On :Mon• day the same 'Geotlenien again called, and told him' there were hopes that the property, could be traced and - eecovered, but it was their 4fsh that they -might be at liberty to send the Pri soner out of the, couptry, which they .wouhi en gege to do : this 'he raised to accede ,to.— At five o'clock the same day they again return ed, and said the greater part of the property had been found, , and wished the • Prosecutor to act:enemy them. He, feeling 'fatigued,' sent his..sen end at Ceentleman, his neighbour, with them; he not ask where ; they were:goieg, but supposed it was to the lodging of some feniale a:A the Prisoner had got enraogted With. Mr. Cowan said his 3stonistuneitt and surprise were very great, .when ,his -son and 'lleiglibtfar returned, and in terthed him that, t he stolen properly, the value of which was upwards of :tool. was found in the coal-hole of the'Priloner's parents. On the morning. following lie took a coaehetud wend 10 the house, where he saw his goods, consiiting of silver and gilt clasps, bugle jet, beads, silver fruit knives nod poucil,cases, gott trinkets, &c. mire 'that) filled a large trunk. begged leave to observe to the :Magistrate, that he considered th e premise he had madoto ehe parents of the Pri soner in a very difii. , rent light, when lie learoed that these. volnable articles were tnund under the roof of the father, from ,the manner be considered it when .he made it ; he then believed they were itutoeenr, and as such telt for T hem; 'but what had appeared • subsequent to that time, made him have a. very (Id- ferent opinion ; but, as he had made the promise, he would abide by it, and trusted that the worthy Ma li,trate would order hint to. be sent on board the Tender. Mt. rettscoe, the Sitting Migistrate, observed, that the Prkoner ought to :be grateful tOr the great' cleutency shewn him by. Mr. coWan tur if he had, not made the promise he did, nothing could have prevented his being executed by the common:hang .coan. lie wiihedhe had seen Mr. Cowan when he' took the warrant out, and he w'ould have etutioned _hin against Making such .a rash prirtni,se. The only recompense now in the Ptisontr's power to make, fir leis life being saved,' was, to make foil reStitu tion of . the property- stolen front Mr. Cowan. 'The Prisoner said, he bad given.up the whole of the snicks, except rx hox full which watt sent to the country to a girl he w 33 courting, and which he had sent • tor.—The three Gentlemen who irit:.trested theOrielves so much on behalf of the Prisoner's r pa rents,. engaged they should he restorers ore ar rival, and returned Mr. Cowan, thanks thr the hand-. some and humane manner in w inch •he had con-, du4ed'birnself. The islActsruArg then ordered that the Pri4nner should be delivered on board his Majosty'd re ceiving- ship off the . Tower, this morning, .at tweli c o'clock. We are sorry ttaisay, the Prisoner-did not appear to be much atretled at the dreadful tate he had narrowly escaped; The watchman will be btouz'it up for examination this day, WORM?. STIVIXT.--Yesterday Benjamin Bishop, ANUS John 2. 1 .r0wn, a yoring mart . not tare than years of age, was brought before. MN,Moser., einirg , - ed %via l being a, rout nett transport;- ho was appro. handed by • Armstrong-and lfiwrtop , the-Officers, at the 'Catharine Wheel . publie-bouse, Cripplegate„ whilst drinking, in company ‘c ill). Little Barney and 'Finney., Crawford, two well-known characters;.-0 Hanson, (me of the Turnheys at Newgato, proved that this Prisoner was, in December &talon, 1804, capitally colnieted, for stenting upwards-of tti. in Bank-netea aud , tuoney, belonging to a parson of the name 0 1 Lambert, but alterw.:rds rcceived-a 'condi tional pardon to be tratisp;,rted for 'ever) years, and was Wilt on board the Captivity Hulk art Langston Harbour, flow whence he made his escape. The Prisoner denied the ehargei be Was committed f or trial. Witlimn Cook, ;Was Rolinson, was examinal on a • charge •;. he away tried and conviel d by 'a Naval 'Court 4.‘lariial jon board The OlNiiritpr art 6f. War, hi,Alanyary 802, of mcinny' on buprehia Mk. lesty's Ship Jemeraire, and received sentence of death, hot wiitr pardoned on (, ondalun oLbeingkep:t to hard lalxitti on the . river Thames during his halm,. ral life, frorn,whence he etreied escape in Ju n e I HO3. Aiinqtron,w,ao 'aprehended hirn Sew days shice-.4- he strongly denied the 0(1; but the Captain of the RetriNlion Hulk, at Wonfwich, appeared before tt.e AlagiAtrate, and ideotified him-, when the Prisoner was committed for forttir Initiation.. • .---.4.,.;-. An inquest was' held yi!sterday, Covent-Gar den Watch-hou4e; by ANrit. Esq,. on the hody of Mathew Webb, •who W 35 dug out, of the ruin 4 of (;ovens-Gardell Theatre, on 'Thursday; last. ,Charles tell, the beadle, said, that on Thursday morning last, as .were - employed' iu clearing the,cistern,. nest to the Piazza-:ioor, they perceived part of a , human ho ly: A young map, who was present, - knowing that Mr. Webb, of Francis -street, Tottenhatuctitut•roaci, had missed his son since the fire at the Theatre, iminediately ran and gave Mr. Webb notice. During the time he was gone, the whole of the rubbish had beeti cleared. The body was found lying go. the back, with tit! hat on'the head, but quite in apai rid state, and not in the least burned. The father recognized his scn p ncipilly by hitri.hoes, which he always had made in a iLtticular manner . , by a 'Man who worked fer his fatnily iu Nortbamptonshire,• which were called highlkws—independent of this, a silver watch, with a purple ,ribbon, which was worked by the deceased's sister, and'given to him the night before, and a sol, wh . c!) was in his pocket, fully. cow inced Mr... Webb .he was his s at, Witness stated, that; the place in which the deceas , 'd had fallen, o01:41 not be above twenty inches sqaare at the . o} coing, and kVas neitr to the place where the fite-engine %S .as at work i it had been built only two, mouths I..mtnr,: the fire happetwd, and cnnununicated the large aft it watt n e ar-s e v e n f e et. deep. Ile gave it as his oi inion, that whenithe 3reYq,ive w ay, a gnantlty, of tubbish I'6l into thin op(lning,and burst. the part:ra which ccanmunieated with the reservoir. Mr. Webb, the father of the Jrceßso,l, 'lnc in jtiq as the I tiesi had conJatit-d his et idei,cc. The, Comfier, with his usual !i) I,r,vent the flith..rst - iwn giving a va;nf u l read to (111;1 Wl:at the laNt Wutiesslial which h e ac „. linowlettgeOlro eurret!q t;te say. tiAnaiou Of the 4.0,Q., fie produLed ith 'On'; and veal, and g.lve . it as olindin, that hi, spa qild not have long in nctere the ;itch gave way, as the wate4' b,ta htnipod. at 104)1 , 1,1w s relit seven, which was neatly tilt!. tittle' the, great, crash came, and the watch v; ::ti nut doWn. lle sari.! his Son ha.l attained his seven e . ”nth star la.pt ; t hat he had been seen working the Vtit.enix (w i nuk.; :ma that lie utn 7 ,t have been killed itigamaileously„ troth' the weight. of the rubbish. . The Jury 'gave a vcrtli6 of—Accidental tie..cik: ea... Piling. in uf tlw ruiru titth v fin: at 'Cavort den 1 /teutre, 'on the 201 A c iS'ep,temttr /ast. A. Coroner', at yesterday at 0 41 Dnke4, Ox.lOrd. , ,tiect, on the body of a boy , tit ibe uttitvit of It appeared that he Wailll in charge of a Cientkihah's horse, in Duke-eitreet, on Tlintiklar,. rind ‘Vai joiood:by atlwr boys, three of whom were riiling the bore .at the saute tiine in bye Street. •TOd.atiimal threw the whole . of and with one of his hind Ice' struck the d.ceAsedrou the head, and he was killed un the‘iiput.—dccniental .I.leatit. •• Mars tAc.--On Saturday morning . ; an unfoittmate Woman was brought to e N ovent Garden Watch- House, aPparently,deliriod'a, and t!s, if she' bed es caped - from a.rn.td;house,'nearly naked. In in ht cid intervals, she gives following acenrint (it her self : —That she is a, native of Spain, and manned a a Linen Mv.rchant, then icsitling .at Gi • 'braltar;i6'whoni ahe bre,:gilt a large lOrturte,' lie became extravagant, and kept a mistress ; when; ever she attempted apeak to 'him about his cond:i6t, he 'Made no a I•lliit'r, but knocked her. down', she - had several children, by him, of whom there. is only one •tt - daughter, l yea; of age.' Ab o ut years back he brought 1 n 'to this country ; on tim pasiatte she was d e l tvere d of :t tkhn wily lived a lo,v hours, she got brain .and milk fever, ‘'eliith continued on her for a length of time ; her hush tad pretentivd Ining her tip to London for medical assistance, instead of which he put her into a ptiveternad-house, at ifoxton, where she received the niOst horsh and cruel' treatment ; they chained her on her baci in a cell, and-lwArly ft - Milted her; an.:l at hut her brain becinutt 'corn pletely (tuned ; she had.been in the mad-Louse up. wards of 'five years, during which time She had net. ther seen nor heard from her husband or child, who reside tit Ashford, in the County of .Kent aboat a fortnight previous to tier escape, she was permitted to waik daily itia walled yard ; on Wednesday, had ing that she way; not watched, she got on a water,. Cask,.and gained the top of the wall, from which she jidnpi:fd intn the road, and ran as fast as possi* into I,,oiKhat ; she had been fortr nights in the 4trevts. ' Her body i tnuoh brni e,i , and' black in several• pmi4.,- which .31pi !I been clt3sed by an irop f.i),'lrn they 6'. - ;ed to IWE' to the fluor with. • Her i4.,m(ttlt.t hns br•en pertettly pea,:cable in the NV.och whero sad nc , i.v is, waiting ttntil the Niagistfi;44 decide I)pvi z , l)e is to .be ilia posed Mr. itrii . ets",'' ifi'd Keeper of tbe Watuh • 14905 e, treat; her m.ith the groatot tltntlaw:ty ; shu appears to b&-qtlite c-,,ntent at her present abutie ; she Slys she has no tt.yee her bil9b3bd, but itithe could palce Again seu iser daught u r, she euiltvoied. riQNCASTER fAC. $ , ks9l").*---The St. Leger'S, which close4.l on the Ist inst. furniiii the itt . tateit number of h01': , 6 ever recollet 4 .letl for those there being no Icss •t1;:ln filty-one to the:fist. For the filly stakes eleven, ahci sis for the two-yors old stakes. It is a singular historical fia, that those of ti►e 'Third HENRY, the Third kipirn►tD,. and -the nirci G.ORGE, should have proved the three longest reigns in !he Lnglitdi Monarchy ; the first having reigned ;4 years, the second 6 . 4, and the lait 49, v. 144 a fair prospect nicer:tinning to away the lintistilve,,- tre.